You know, there was a case where a cop body slammed a 15-year old girl into the concrete wall of a jail cell, threw her to the ground, and proceeded to punch her in the head a few times (with assistance from another cop, of course) and kick her in the stomach, before dragging her out of the cell by her hair. In the process of beating the shit out of a girl half his size, he accidentally whacked his shin against the metal toilet. He brought her up on charges of assault for his injured leg.
Police officers in the US are declaring that pepper spray is too inhumane to use... on police officers. It's just fine and dandy to use on unarmed people sitting down.
They will stand there and feed you this line of psychopathic bullshit with a straight face and be honestly unable to figure out how they earned the title "largest street gang in America".
> If it's a C++ app, then sure, having a built-in crash reporting mechanism shouldn't be that hard to build in
That's precisely what I do. The default exception handling routine sends an email to me with the app, version, username, machine id, error description, call stack, and any useful data that that I saw fit to include while coding. It has saved me mountains of pain over the years, and also fuels my reputation as the all-seeing eye.
Recovered eventually. There's autolithotrophs saturating the bedrock down for several km, Archean extremophiles filling niches so unpleasant an asteroid strike would seem downright balmy in comparison. Granted, wiping out every life form that can't be seen with a microscope would be a bit of a setback, but with any luck there'd have been megacellular organisms again before the sun heats up and cooks the planet.
I had my mind blown reading Dr. Altemeyer's work The Authoritarians, the bit where he gave the same tests to certain governmental figures both here and in the USSR. He discovered that for all that these fearless Cold Warriors claimed to be mortal enemies fighting for opposing causes, they were, in their outlooks and attitudes, carbon copies of each another.
> 3. It has cleared it's orbit of all other bodies that aren't satellites of itself, Lagrange point bodies, or "twin" satellites of similar mass that it stably co-orbits with where the co-orbital point exists outside either body.
Wouldn't this definition preclude a Kemplerer Rosette? Sure, they don't occur in nature, and are in fact quite unstable without active stationkeeping, but if you put (to pick a number at random) 5 Earth-sized planets equally spaced in the same orbit, be kinda silly to declare them non-planets as a result.
I got downvoted all to hell and back on Reddit when I pointed out that at some point, the risk of killing a cop and trying to get away with it may be safer than the risk of trying to deal with them peacefully. That's certainly already true from the perspective of the family dog.
The only thing you got wrong about this is that there isn't actually any requirement that there be drugs or any crime actually taking place. The standard of evidence for asset forfeiture is basically "suspicion of being related to a crime". No arrest, no charge, no crime actually needed. There is literally nothing stopping cops from simply pulling you over and taking your car and everything in it, except that they _might_ have a slightly harder time keeping it _if_ you later sue them to get it back. In fact, there are towns in the US with police farces that run exactly this racket full time. They pull over out-of-towners, demand they turn over everything of value inside the car or else they'll take it all _and_ the car as well and leave them penniless and stranded. They've threatened to take children from their parents during some of these shakedowns. It's beyond insane, and they don't even bother to take steps to hide it because it's entirely legal and above-board for them to do it.
That's not true. It's easy to get a cop fired. You just have to nail them fro a crime they can't excuse away as "just doing my job, it was all the other guy's fault". Things like drug use. Police farces come down harder on cops for toking up on the weekend than they do for them committing cold-blooded murder on the job.
And furthermore, the ruling elite considers this state of affairs to be merely making the best of a bad situation, and has on various occasions taken stabs at alternative social models that don't depend on having a large class of Stupids. Not only that, but they appear to actively draw their ranks from the most intelligent members of the opposition by the simple means of rationally arguing for continuing the status quo, showing that it maximizes human well-being while minimizing suffering, and the Coordinator rightfully (perhaps even enviously?) points out that while life in exile is hard, it does offer freedoms and benefits wholly lacking in the 'civilized' world. Mustapha Mond always struck me as a supremely intellectually honest guy.
Whether or not the society described is a dystopia is up for debate, but it's most definitely not a dystopic government.
How about NASA figure out how to get to _orbit_ first? They've been fucking that part up for the past 30 years, and I don't understand why it needs to be pointed out to them that it is the first and most critical step to getting anywhere else.
In the long run, yeah. In the short term, it means a massive spike in population growth before people realize they don't need to squeeze out a kid every couple years like clockwork in the hopes that a few of them will survive to adulthood.
Holy shit. I now want to find some who's said that and punch them right in the face until the stupid bleeds out. That fucker killed up to an estimated half a _billion_ people in the 20th century alone, and *within living memory* dropped to basically zero due to vaccines, and they are actually disputing that?
> Also, an element and a compound containing said element are not the same thing.
Yeah, sometimes they're worse. Dimethyl-mercury, oy vey. Stuff will go right through latex, PVC, or neoprene, and a couple drops on your gloved hand will condemn you to months of lingering, agonizing death.
My employer offers a prepaid legal service for a couple dollars per paycheck. I wouldn't use them as my defense in a trial, but they can handle penny-ante crap like writing up wills, and in a pinch can serve as counsel in emergencies or when you just need some legal-jitsu on your side. I keep their quick-contact card in my wallet.
And asset forfeiture laws were only meant to be used on millionaire druglords, and the PATRIOT Act was only meant to be used on scaaary terrorists, and torture was only meant to be used in the event of ticking time bombs, and...
Uh, no. They can and really do arrest you _solely_ for "resisting arrest". It's part of this extremely vague and nebulous catch-all charge of impeding an officer, but the upshot is that a cop can literally walk up to you on the street, tell you you're under arrest, and when you ask why they tell you it's for "resisting arrest without violence".
And in the meantime they can seize your house, your car, pretty much anything you own, by declaring it to be criminally gained. And they don't have to provide a shred of evidence of that.
Yeah, he'd have to be crazy to worry about being assassinated when leaders in major world governments all over are demanding, right now, that be be assassinated. Where'd he get such outlandish, paranoid nonsense?!?!
It's trivial to _infer_ acceleration from the only data GPS provides, which is location, yes. But you're forgetting one of the first rules of computer science. Garbage in, garbage out. If the location is wrong, then the velocity and acceleration will be wrong as well. I can't tell you how many times I've used my GPS-enabled phone to track my bicycling route and at the end it tells me my maximum speed was 40 (or in one memorable case, 400) mph.
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You know, there was a case where a cop body slammed a 15-year old girl into the concrete wall of a jail cell, threw her to the ground, and proceeded to punch her in the head a few times (with assistance from another cop, of course) and kick her in the stomach, before dragging her out of the cell by her hair. In the process of beating the shit out of a girl half his size, he accidentally whacked his shin against the metal toilet. He brought her up on charges of assault for his injured leg.
Police officers in the US are declaring that pepper spray is too inhumane to use... on police officers. It's just fine and dandy to use on unarmed people sitting down.
They will stand there and feed you this line of psychopathic bullshit with a straight face and be honestly unable to figure out how they earned the title "largest street gang in America".
> If it's a C++ app, then sure, having a built-in crash reporting mechanism shouldn't be that hard to build in
That's precisely what I do. The default exception handling routine sends an email to me with the app, version, username, machine id, error description, call stack, and any useful data that that I saw fit to include while coding. It has saved me mountains of pain over the years, and also fuels my reputation as the all-seeing eye.
Recovered eventually. There's autolithotrophs saturating the bedrock down for several km, Archean extremophiles filling niches so unpleasant an asteroid strike would seem downright balmy in comparison. Granted, wiping out every life form that can't be seen with a microscope would be a bit of a setback, but with any luck there'd have been megacellular organisms again before the sun heats up and cooks the planet.
It polluted its environment with toxins lethal to itself. Draw what parallels to human civilization as you will.
What sort of porn does Earth want? Rule 34 says we can make it happen. Hot Gaia on Gaia action?
Vampire frogs. Awesome.
I had my mind blown reading Dr. Altemeyer's work The Authoritarians, the bit where he gave the same tests to certain governmental figures both here and in the USSR. He discovered that for all that these fearless Cold Warriors claimed to be mortal enemies fighting for opposing causes, they were, in their outlooks and attitudes, carbon copies of each another.
> 3. It has cleared it's orbit of all other bodies that aren't satellites of itself, Lagrange point bodies, or "twin" satellites of similar mass that it stably co-orbits with where the co-orbital point exists outside either body.
Wouldn't this definition preclude a Kemplerer Rosette? Sure, they don't occur in nature, and are in fact quite unstable without active stationkeeping, but if you put (to pick a number at random) 5 Earth-sized planets equally spaced in the same orbit, be kinda silly to declare them non-planets as a result.
I got downvoted all to hell and back on Reddit when I pointed out that at some point, the risk of killing a cop and trying to get away with it may be safer than the risk of trying to deal with them peacefully. That's certainly already true from the perspective of the family dog.
The only thing you got wrong about this is that there isn't actually any requirement that there be drugs or any crime actually taking place. The standard of evidence for asset forfeiture is basically "suspicion of being related to a crime". No arrest, no charge, no crime actually needed. There is literally nothing stopping cops from simply pulling you over and taking your car and everything in it, except that they _might_ have a slightly harder time keeping it _if_ you later sue them to get it back. In fact, there are towns in the US with police farces that run exactly this racket full time. They pull over out-of-towners, demand they turn over everything of value inside the car or else they'll take it all _and_ the car as well and leave them penniless and stranded. They've threatened to take children from their parents during some of these shakedowns. It's beyond insane, and they don't even bother to take steps to hide it because it's entirely legal and above-board for them to do it.
The real question is, how good a language is Danish for creating stealth insults, or insults with plausible deniability?
"It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his paycheck is dependent on him _not_ understanding it"
That's not true. It's easy to get a cop fired. You just have to nail them fro a crime they can't excuse away as "just doing my job, it was all the other guy's fault". Things like drug use. Police farces come down harder on cops for toking up on the weekend than they do for them committing cold-blooded murder on the job.
And furthermore, the ruling elite considers this state of affairs to be merely making the best of a bad situation, and has on various occasions taken stabs at alternative social models that don't depend on having a large class of Stupids. Not only that, but they appear to actively draw their ranks from the most intelligent members of the opposition by the simple means of rationally arguing for continuing the status quo, showing that it maximizes human well-being while minimizing suffering, and the Coordinator rightfully (perhaps even enviously?) points out that while life in exile is hard, it does offer freedoms and benefits wholly lacking in the 'civilized' world. Mustapha Mond always struck me as a supremely intellectually honest guy.
Whether or not the society described is a dystopia is up for debate, but it's most definitely not a dystopic government.
How about NASA figure out how to get to _orbit_ first? They've been fucking that part up for the past 30 years, and I don't understand why it needs to be pointed out to them that it is the first and most critical step to getting anywhere else.
In the long run, yeah. In the short term, it means a massive spike in population growth before people realize they don't need to squeeze out a kid every couple years like clockwork in the hopes that a few of them will survive to adulthood.
> smallpox wasn't stopped by vaccines
Holy shit. I now want to find some who's said that and punch them right in the face until the stupid bleeds out. That fucker killed up to an estimated half a _billion_ people in the 20th century alone, and *within living memory* dropped to basically zero due to vaccines, and they are actually disputing that?
> Also, an element and a compound containing said element are not the same thing.
Yeah, sometimes they're worse. Dimethyl-mercury, oy vey. Stuff will go right through latex, PVC, or neoprene, and a couple drops on your gloved hand will condemn you to months of lingering, agonizing death.
My employer offers a prepaid legal service for a couple dollars per paycheck. I wouldn't use them as my defense in a trial, but they can handle penny-ante crap like writing up wills, and in a pinch can serve as counsel in emergencies or when you just need some legal-jitsu on your side. I keep their quick-contact card in my wallet.
And asset forfeiture laws were only meant to be used on millionaire druglords, and the PATRIOT Act was only meant to be used on scaaary terrorists, and torture was only meant to be used in the event of ticking time bombs, and...
Uh, no. They can and really do arrest you _solely_ for "resisting arrest". It's part of this extremely vague and nebulous catch-all charge of impeding an officer, but the upshot is that a cop can literally walk up to you on the street, tell you you're under arrest, and when you ask why they tell you it's for "resisting arrest without violence".
And in the meantime they can seize your house, your car, pretty much anything you own, by declaring it to be criminally gained. And they don't have to provide a shred of evidence of that.
Yeah, he'd have to be crazy to worry about being assassinated when leaders in major world governments all over are demanding, right now, that be be assassinated. Where'd he get such outlandish, paranoid nonsense?!?!
It's trivial to _infer_ acceleration from the only data GPS provides, which is location, yes. But you're forgetting one of the first rules of computer science. Garbage in, garbage out. If the location is wrong, then the velocity and acceleration will be wrong as well. I can't tell you how many times I've used my GPS-enabled phone to track my bicycling route and at the end it tells me my maximum speed was 40 (or in one memorable case, 400) mph.